Blue Screen of Death meets cybercrime – true or false?

Quite a good point is made about the QR codes which will appear during a BSOD.
 
19th April 2016  by Paul Ducklin
 
                                                       

 
If your laptop just crashed, you can’t use it to search for advice on the likely cause and what to do next, so you might asfcuter well reach for your phone…
 
…except that typing in windows DOT com SLASH stopcode and then MANUALLY_INIT­IATED_CRASH on the average phone keyboard is just adding injury to insult, so packing that detail into a QR code seems like a forward step.
 
Of course, as The Register quickly pointed out, it’s also a terrible idea, because technical support scammers and other cybercrooks will just love it.
 
You can’t easily tell where the QR code will lead, or what personalised tracking data is buried in the URL under cover of encoding the bugcheck code (as Windows euphemistically calls the reason for the crash).
 
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